Life and stories are alike in one way: They are full of hollows. The king and queen have no children: They have a child hollow. The girl has a wicked stepmother: She has a mother hollow. In a story, a baby comes along to fill the child hollow. But in life, the hollows continue empty.
Franny BillingsleyI was asking about lust, wasnสผt I? I was fairly certain of it. But isnสผt love supposed to come before lust? It does in the dictionary.
Franny BillingsleySecrets press inside a person. They press the way water presses at a dam. The secrets and the water, they both want to get out.
Franny BillingsleyI explained we lost the porch to the flood. Father hasn't gotten around to rebuilding it, although he's quite a good carpenter. He says if Jesus was a carpenter, its good enough for a clergyman. But I don't remember that Jesus let his house fall down.
Franny Billingsley